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The Cross of Flesh and Four Hundred Years
Neville reinterprets the 'four hundred years' of enslavement mentioned in Genesis not as a literal time period, but as the symbolic duration of suffering in…
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Read it in the book of Genesis, You will go into a land – a strange land, and you will be enslaved there – enslaved for “four hundred years” – not four hundred years as you and I measure time. This cross of flesh [indicating the physical body] is “four hundred,” for four hundred is simply the numerical value of the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, whose symbol is that of a cross, It is the taw, the 22nd letter, and this is the cross on which God is crucified, and you suffer while you wear the body of flesh and blood. We are enslaved by the body that we wear. No matter what you own in this world – if you owned the whole vast world, and all were your slaves, you could not command one slave in your world to eat for you and assimilate for you. You have to eat, assimilate and eliminate for yourself. You are a slave of the body that you wear, and you will wear it for the “four hundred years,” until that moment in time when you are called.
Neville reinterprets the 'four hundred years' of enslavement mentioned in Genesis not as a literal time period, but as the symbolic duration of suffering in the 'cross of flesh' (the physical body). He links 'four hundred' to the numerical value of the Hebrew letter 'taw,' which symbolizes a cross. This 'cross of flesh' is where God (humanity) is crucified, and individuals are enslaved by the limitations and demands of the physical body until they are 'called' into the Body of Love.